Losing Skill?

I haven't played online much. I did hit the rare home game, last week, but that ended badly. Between a $20 tournament followed by a small cash game, I blew about $100. I didn't do anything in the tournament, since I didn't get a hand. I bluffed one hand and won, but then didn't get a damn thing the rest of the night. Managed to make it through the re-buy period and had a few more chips than I started with, so I didn't have to rebuy. I continued to get nothing, and the rare times I was in the hand, I didn't hit anything.

My final hand was 22. I raised, got 1 caller. It was about 25% of my stack. Flop came K55. The caller, bet, pretty much putting me all in. I knew I had to be beat, but had to hope for the AQ/AJ making a move on a short stack. He wasn't, he had KQ. I was the first one out (though a few other people did rebuy, so at least I was only down $20).

I hung around the cash. When there were four of us, we started. I chalk most of my losses in the cash game to unlucky. I definitely didn't play great, but one of the weaker players in the game, kept getting hands. The guy is notorious for betting his missed straights on the end. THis time though, he made straight after straight, after flush, after set.

In the end, I just couldn't get any hands. At one point the guy had over $100. He proceeded to give it all away. Just not to me. In the end, I figured over 5 hours of poker, I won maybe 5 hands.

Not to say I played great, I didn't. Far from, actually. But I'm starting to pick up on one of my leaks. The money. It's not a lot, but right now, I don't have much free money to play with, so if I lose what I have, I'm done. Between the limited live cash, and the tiny bankroll online, I fear losing, thus things like continuation bets, and pushing clearly weak hands off are hard to do. I have to find away to just not care about the funds anymore.

The league hasn't started up yet, but should shortly. Email have gone out to get a count. Not sure if I'm going to do it, but I did say I was interested. I think it will be a game time decision. If there are a lot of people (8 or 9) I may play, otherwise, with only 5 or 6, it may not be worth it.

Hopefully, I can get back into the right frame of mind to play, and with that will come more posts. I think I also might have to review some of my poker books, and even check out some new ones. I might need to get back into the fundamentals.

Until then... My name is Unimpressed, and I'm an donkaholic.